Rail-tie.



L. LEBER.

RAIL TIE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. 1915.

1,164,825, Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Elhwwlioz LouisLelyez;

Gum-mu COLUMBIA PLRNOURAP" CO" WASHINGTON. D. C.

LOUIS LEBER, OF NEW EAGLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Rain-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. Apri130, 1915. Serial No. 25,033.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Louis LEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Eagle,

in the county of Washington and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Ties, of WlllCh the I following is a specification.

The present lnventlon relates to rail ties and rail supports and fastenings therefor, the object of the invention being to provide an ordinary Wooden tie'with a metallic rail rest and support, and so associate the support with the tie as to provide an interlocking engagement between the same, and whereby the rails supported uponthe seat will be afforded a desirable amount of resiliency so as not to inflict injury to' the treads of the wheels of the rolling stock passing thereover.

With theabove and other objects in view, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing; Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tie and rail supporting clamps orblocks secured therein and constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a side View of a portion of a tie, Fig. 5 is a side elevation of one of the rail blocks, Fig. 6 is a detail elevation of a rail in section showing a slightly modified form of my improvement.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 designates an ordinary wooden tie, the same having its upper face, adjacent its ends, provided with longitudinally extending depressions 2, the said depressions being centrally formed with transverse slots 3, which communicate with an enlarged transverse opening 4. Each of the openings 4 has its lower wall 5 arranged horizontally straight and in a plane parallel to that of the lower wall of the depression 2, and the side walls 6 provided by the said opening are spaced a suitable distance inward of the side walls or shoulders 7 provided by the depression 2. The upper walls provided by'the opening 4 are beveled or inclined toward each other and toward the slot 3, as indicated by the numeral 8, and the portions of the tie provided between the surfaces 8 and 9 form what I shall term fingers and which are indicated by the numerals 10.

The numerals 1212 designate the rail blocks. Both-ofthese blocks are of a simllar construction, each including abasepor- 131011 13 having its-lower wall horizontally stralght and terminating in a shoulder 14 whlch is adapted to abutwith the shoulder 6 of the opening 4. The base is formed with an angular wall 15 corresponding with the wall 8 of the fingers l0 and terminating in a transverse wall 16 which abuts with the shoulder 9 provided by the end walls of the slot 3. The upper portions of the blocks are each horizontally straight and terminate in shoulders 17 which abut with the shoulders 7, the said upper portions being extended beyond the said shoulders 17 as indicated by the numerals 18, and these extensions rest upon the top of the tie and are secured to the tie by bolts or wood screws 19 which pass through suitable openings therein into the tie 1. The upper faces of the blocks 12, above their horizontally straight rail base receiving portions '20, and at a slight distance beyond their shoulders 17 are provided with inwardly extending hooks or flanges 21, the said flanges overlying the base flanges of the rails. As two of the members 12 are employed'in each of the openings at the ends of the tie, the vertically straight longitudinally extending inner walls or faces of the same abut, and by providing the ties with the opposite shoulders and the metallic blocks 12 with the staggered co-acting shoulders, it will be noted that when the blocks are socured to the ties, the same will be retained against longitudinal movement, and through the medium of the securing elements 19 will be likewise sustained against lateral movement, so that danger ofthe blocks being accidentally separated from the tie will be entirely avoided.

From the above description, taken in con- Patented Dec. 21, 1915, 1

nection with the accompanying drawing, the

ing beveled toward the top of the tie and" providing in combination with the upper walls provided by the depression, longitudinally extending fingers, the ends of the fin-s gers, the side Walls of the openings and the end .walls of the depressions being disposed in opposite relation with each other, rail blocks arranged in pairs and comprising companlon members adapted to be received Within the depression, slot and opening and having their ends co-inciding with the Walls provided by the said depressions, slot and opening, said blocks being formed with members which extend over the tie beyond Copies bf.- this patent niay be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gomn issio'ner 'of Patents,

theend Walls of the depressions and having 15 jtheir'upper faces provided with inwardly "extending rail engaging flanges and the inner walls of said flanges being disposed in- 9 wardly of the shoulders of said blocks which contact with the side walls of the depres 20 sions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signatnre in presence of two. witnesses.

Witnesses:

HENRY, (JARVIS, JOSEPH MONTANIL Washington, D. 0',

LOUIS. LE R, l a 

